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 /r of a fon, o' what quality or condition foevet, to lay it to heart. I know there are many living, who have been eye.wimeffes, I wifh I could nor fly inflrances, the mi/i:h/efs that have from hence accru'd. Many are, indeed, ingenuous enough to own the great conveniences, which, by long encouragement in i:!le- ne5, the.re pretended nur!es of heroes and patriots have brought u?on them. There are many within and without me walls of our unieertities, who know and will acknowledge (and let any hod5, de- ny it who can) that the education of a perfort of' diltinion at Oxvouo, inftead of being, as it ought, the molt firicily' taken care of, is ot-'all the roof[ neglehted; a nobleman may bring any thing from. college but learni.ng5 but there is generally cffccq:ual care taken that li:i'G-- fhall not want temptations to en'ice him from ftudying too hard. A gentle man-commoner, if he be a man of fortune, is loon told, that it is not: expee"ted from one o!' his form to mind exercifes: if he is fiudous, he is motore, an.ct a heavy booklib fellow' if he keeps a cellar wine, the good-natur'd bllows will indulge him, tho' he flould. be too heavy-headed to be at chapel in a morning. Thus we ti.e even religion in as lit- tle elteem as morality' wih 'era, ho', perhaps, it is a little more pretended to, or talk d o, by them. There is a lower form or two o' youth, who come in for a child's part in the bofom o{' the�e our tender mothers; their behaviour towards thelh is of a medley kind, according to the dcfigns they' have upon 'era; only one fixt maxim prevails, 295 0 that have m 0 money muff have leafi te.,.rning. tlo not fay, that every poor young f'dlor iS on the contrary ifiltrue�in any ufetl or beneficial know- led�but i,f he be one ,,uho promi�es ,.veil to O/and his mothers friend hereafter, or a friend td:the thurb, (which is a word, they make ufe of to nif-y

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